Posted on 09/01/2017 9:31:43 AM PDT by rktman
A sailing expedition to the North Pole to raise awareness of global warming has been forced to turn back, 590 nautical miles short of its destination, after the yachts found their passage blocked by large quantities of an unexpected frozen white substance.
According to Arctic Mission’s website:
A meeting of the four skippers was held led by Erik de Jong, with Pen Hadow present, and it was agreed further northward progress would increase considerably the risks to the expedition, with very limited scientific reward. The decision to head south, back to an area of less concentrated sea ice in the vicinity of 79 degrees 30 minutes North, was made at 18.30 (Alaskan time).
Concentrated sea ice? In the Arctic Circle? Whoever would have imagined?
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Scuppered..................
Did they at least take pictures of polar bears on icebergs stranded waiting for Pizza Hut to deliver?
OMG! Since when is there ice in the ocean around the Arctic Circle? Next they are going to tell us there are Polar Bears there too.
Somebody better check the sea levels!!!!
If this was really a “green” expedition, their ship would be have 3 masts (only).
Sea levels are now apparently safe since the lyin’ king is lookin’ to pony up between $12 and $15 million for ocean front property on Martha’s Vineyard.
Keep going, AlGore says there isn’t any ice up there.
Who are you going to believe, the godfather of the CO2 theory, or your lying eyes?
ROTF LMBO!!!!!! at the
greenies ROTFLOL!!!!
Turning back is disgraceful, they should press onward!! They claim it should be all open water by now, so let them put their lives and boats where their mouths have been.
I know. It’s unkind, but sometimes you just can’t help yourself.
I don’t even have to go looking for stories, like journalists used to have to do in the old days. They just sail right past my nose like this latest dumb-assed Arctic failure expedition just did... About the only people covering this stuff are skeptical bloggers. Most of the mainstream media are looking away, pretending it’s not happening...
What I like best about this is getting called a "science denier" for suggesting that there's ice at the North pole. What I like least is the prospect of paying for a rescue expedition.
LOL! Manbearpig....
Didn’t get much further than Franklin did 170 years ago. Not much climate “change” there.
THAT was a GREAT catch. My wife read that item to me off the web; and I later saw it myself, but I failed to make the sea level link. We’d better never hear another peep out of Obunga or his Mooch-man sidekick about AGW. Are they still masquerading as spouses, BTW? And HEY! Since we know that Mooch is really a guy named Michael, who is the old woman posing as Mooch’s mother on all those extravagant trips?
I heard the sea levels are rising by hundreds of feet...they should be able to sail right over that ice...
See #4 of this thread to be enlightened on sea level rise. Or lack thereof. ;-)
LOL!!
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